Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
In fact, the liberty of Latin word order allows "of Troy" to be taken to modify "arms" or "the man" but is not customarily interpreted so.
Also, excessive use of the device if the emphasis is unnecessary or even unintended, especially for the sake of rhyme or metre, is usually[citation needed] considered a flaw, such as the clumsy versification of Sternhold and Hopkins's metrical psalter: However, some poets have a style that depends on heavy use of anastrophe.
Gerard Manley Hopkins is particularly identified with the device, which renders his poetry susceptible to parody: When anastrophe draws an adverb to the head of a thought, such as for emphasis, the verb is drawn along.
That causes a verb-subject inversion: In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," the poem's opening clause begins with an object noun, and yet this inversion does not occur, effectively creating a tension that is worked against through the rest of the poem:[3][4] A popular cultural example of anastrophe would be Yoda from the Star Wars series.